John 5:16
And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath-day.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
15The man went, and informed the Jews, that it was Jesus who had made him whole.
17Then Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.
Cross References
Matthew 12:13Then saith he to the man, Stretch out thy hand; and he stretched it out, and it was restored, sound as the other.
Luke 6:11But they were filled with madness, and talked earnestly to each other what they could do to Jesus.
John 7:19Hath not Moses given you the law, yet none of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?
John 10:39Then sought they again to apprehend him and he departed out of their reach,
Acts 9:4and falling on the ground, he heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Matthew Henry on John 5:2-17
The Cure at the Pool of Bethesda. 1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches. 3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. 4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of… Read the whole commentary →